Heel-beading machine



Dec. 27, 1927.

E. ERICKSON HEEL BEADING MACHINE Filed Dec. 31, 1924 //VVE/V 727/1.-

Patented Dec. 27, 1927.

UNITED STATES Parent EDWARD ERICKSON, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

HEEL-READING MACHINE.

This invention relates to burnishing machines and in particular to machines used to ornament the edges of the heels of boots and shoes.

Shoes having leather heels and toplifts are commonly ornamented after they have been burnished by providing an indentation or beading along the sides of the heel adjacent to the corners of the heel breast. It is an object of the invention to provide a simple and inexpensive heel-beading machine which may be used without the application of power by movement of the work with respect to the various tools.

The position of these beads or indentations with respect to the adjacent edges of the breast of the heel is varied in accordance with the style of work and the taste of the manufacturer. With this in view, in accordance with features of the invention, novel arrangements are provided for relatively adjusting the tools adapted for heading the lateral surfaces of a heel near the edges at the junction of the heel breast and sides, and gage members co-operating therewith so as to vary the distance between the tools and their respective gage members. Novel tool supporting and heating arrangements are also provided, as will-be more fully disclosed in the following specification taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

A. novel construction and arrangement for beading the periphery of the toplift which are disclosed herein,.are claimed in a divisional application Serial No. 182,853 filed April 11, 1927.

In the drawings?- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my novel machine;

Fig. 2 is av section through the tool for beadding the peripheral edge of the toplift; an

Fig. 3 is a section through'the tool for beading the lateral faces of the heel adjacent to the corners of the heel breast.

The machine comprises a tool for treating the edge of the toplift and another tool for treating the lateral faces of the heel, and these tools are mounted in a convenient relation upon a standard. An adjustable gage is provided for each tool, and means are provided for electrically heating the tool used on the lateral faces of the heel. The illus- Application filed December 31, 1924. Serial No. 759,039.

trated toplift tool is freely rotatable upon a shaft and arranged so that the operator may place the tool at one heel breast corner and by a single deft movement cause the tool to head the toplift around its whole outer periphery. The tool used for the heading of the lateral faces of the heel is a double tool provided with an intermediate gage member capable of use with either part, of the tool according to whether the tool is being used for one face or the other of the heel. This gage member is adjustable with respect to the tools. The arms supporting the two sets of tools extend substantially at right angles with respect to each other and the burnishing disks are located upon these arms in planes which are parallel. The resulting arrangement enables the operator to present the work first to one and then to the other of the tools substantially without altering his position.

A standard 10 mounted upon a suitable base 12 which is adapted to be screwed to the top of a bench carries at its upper end a tool-supporting head 14: held upon the standard by set screw 15. The tool supporting head 14 has a lateral boss 16 for the support of a toplift beading tool mechanism and also has flanges 18, only one of which is shown,

for the support of a heel-face beading tool and the rheostat for controlling the electricheating of the latter tool.

Fronran inspection of Fig. 2, it will be seen that there 1s provided a supporting stud 20 adjustably held in position in the boss 16 by means of a set screw 22. A toplift tool 23, which preferably is mounted for free rotation upon the stud 20, comprises a disk portion 241, the edge of which. is used to indent the work by rolling contact therewith, and a sleeve portion 26 surrounding the stud 20 and this toplift tool is positioned upon the stud by engagement with the head of the stud and the end of the boss 16. The outside of the sleeve portion 26 is threaded and a gage member 28 having the form of a disk is adjustably positioned upon said sleeveby threaded engagement therewith and is held in adjusted position by means of a lock nut 80. It will be noted that the outer pe riphery of the disk-shaped gage member 28 is smooth and rounded so that there is no danger of marking the work in case the operator allows the shoe 31 to slip and come into contact with the edge of the gage. As

' will be seen from Fi 1, the end of the stud 25 2G and the end of the toplift beading tool 23 are provided with a screw driver slot 32 to allow the user to hold the tool from rotation when it is c esired to adjust the gage member on the sleeve portion 26.

A round plate l0 having a laterally extending arm 42 is used to support heel face beading tool 43. This round plate 40 is supported upon the tool-carrying head 1 of themachine by means of bolts which pass through the flanges 18 and are used also to support a casing as of a rheostat. A control lever 48 allows adjustment of the eilect ofthe rheostatupon a heating unit 49 which is received in a suitable socket in the arm 42 of the plate 4.0. The arrangement of the parts just described is such that the-plate t0 and its laterally extending tool-carrying arm 42-mayv readily be reversed to suit the needs of a left-handed operator.

The tool 48 for beading the l of the heel comprises twin be ling disks 50' and 52' which are llltr in position at the outer end of the arm 42 by means of a screw stud 54-. A taperedgage member h s body portion 58 which is slotted at 60 an is positioned between the disks 50 and 52 and clamped in position by the screw stud S lthe head of which presses directly again t a smooth-edged washer 61. By reason oft the provision of the elongated slot 60 the member 56 may be moved up and down to vary the eilect-ive distance between said and the lower operating parts of the disks 50 and 52. At the same time the gage member 56 slightly burnishes the "faces of the breast corners. It will be seen that this forms a very simple and effective way for det ri'iining the distance from theedge of the breast of the heel to the beading line 57. The electrical heating device "for this tool is especially desirable for use with a stationary tool, designed to treat-the lateral faces of the heel, which must be moved across the grain or" the pieces of leather making up the litts'ot the heel.

In the use 01" the machine the operator will commonly stand in front of the projecting arm d2 which caries the tools for heading the lateral faces of the heels. tion he is enabled. to present first one corner and then the other of the heel to the respe tive disks of this double tool and to more the heel along the tool by raising-it against the gage member 56in the manner suggested in Fig. 1. The operator willthen, substantially without changing his position, present the toplift of the heel to the disk portion 25% 1 eial races In this posi-' of the toplift tool and will rest the tread face of the heel against the fiat face of the disk-shaped gage member 28. .Having posi: tioned the work originally with the tool in engagement with the toplittat'one corner ofcs the heel, the operator passes the work downwardly and across and upwardly in such a manner that the tool is brought into engagement with the whole ot'the outer periphery .oi the toplitt to. produce the heading line 59.

The position illustrated in Fig. 1 is intermediate between the extreme positions ofthe work in this part of-the beading operation.

Having thus described the invention, what l: claim as new and desire to secure by Let-- te Patent ot the United States is:

1. Abe-riding tool comprising indenting members, a tapered age memberinterposedbetween said indenting members having op- 9 posed work-engaging surfaces,- means fortclamping together the indenting members and the member, said clamping means allowing adjustment of the gage memben with respect to the indenting members-to vary the extent of the tapered portion pr0- jecting beyond the indenting members wherethe distance between the efiective gaging sui ces oi said gage member and-the re spective 'ioenting members may bevariedQ A heel-beading tool comprising indenting disks, an interposed gage member having a slotted port-ion and a tapered portion servr r s a gage to locate the indentation in the coin with respect to the adjacent edge of the work, and means for clamping said gage no member and said indenting disks in adjustedposition comprising a stud passing through the slot of the gage member.

3. A heelebeading machine comprisinga supporting standarcha plate having a lateral extension mounted upon said standard, a tool for treating the lateral faces of a heel I adjacent to the heel breast mounted on said extension, and means for clampingsaid plate to extendlaterally in either of two directions with respect to said standard whereby the" position of the tool maybedetermined to suit the needs of the particular operator.=

t. A heel-beading machine comprislnga v, supporting standard, a tool-supporting plate lliJ having a lateral extension, electric heating means in said extension, a heel-beading tool supported at the end of the extension, a rheostat torcontrollino the heat supplied to said heating unit, ant commonnieans for clamping the rheostat and theplate to-the standard.

In testimony whereof- I have signed my name to this specification.

EDWARD ERIGKSON:.. 

